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Previously: Last year’s profiles. S Damani Dent, S/Nk Zeke Berry, S/HSP Keon Sabb, CB Myles Pollard, CB/Nk Kody Jones, CB Will Johnson, LB Deuce Spurlock, LB Jimmy Rolder, DE/LB Micah Pollard, DE Derrick Moore, DT Mason Graham, DT Kenneth Grant, DT Cam Goode, T Andrew Gentry, T/G Connor Jones, G Alessandro Lorenzetti, C Olu Oluwatimi, TE Marlin Klein, TE Colston Loveland, WR Amorion Walker, WR Tyler Morris, WR Darrius Clemons. Columbia, SC – 5'11"/190 [courtesy of SCISA Athletics] 247: 5'11/190 3.68* 3*, 87, NR overall #56 RB, #9 SC Rivals: 5'10/188 3.72* 3*, 5.6, NR overall #38 RB, #8 SC ESPN: 5'10/180 3.59* 3*, 77, #364 SE #60 RB, #11 SC On3: 5'10/180 3.62* 3*, 87, NR overall #45 RB, #13 SC Composite: 3.69* 3*, 0.8685, #798 ovr #63 RB, #9 SC Other Suitors Mizzou, SC, L'ville, Minn YMRMFSPA Karan Higdon Previously On MGoBlog Hello by me. Notes Full name Capers Stokes Jr. Twitter. Film: Senior Highlights: Hudl. Finding a guy to jump in this class when Blake Corum has at least another year of college and Donovan Edwards has at least two was going to be a challenge. But like linebacker, Michigan this cycle seemed to be constantly chasing other teams for their top targets despite adding Mike Hart to the staff in time to be part of that whole cycle. Hart had some of his own ideas, and one of them was this kid born to play for the South Carolina Gamecocks. He grew up around the program, went to high school with the coaches' kids, and then his own HC was hired as the new staff's TE coach. Never one to stop trying despite appearances, Hart wiggled into Stokes's recruitment in time to hold off a Mizzou commitment, then churned away until Stokes pledged to the Blue in June. That still meant surviving the new South Carolina staff's late charge to hold onto the hometowner. But it was too late. Not only did Stokes use last fall to Michigan-brain himself as deeply as my 15-year-old nephew. He also transformed himself into an entirely different recruit. When people talked about 15-year-old Stokes, it was his freshman track times and wondering aloud how fast the 40 will be at his next camp. By Early Signing Day, people were speaking excitedly about his one-cut acceleration, calling him a "bruiser" and praising his want-to. His signing press conference went viral. He's not 5'6". But this 3-star put up 1,000-yard seasons against low competition, flew under the radar despite a local school coming after him late, and—oh you get it, Mike Hart made him into Mike Hart. [After THE JUMP: One cut and go]
Previously: Last year’s profiles. S Damani Dent, S/Nk Zeke Berry, S/HSP Keon Sabb, CB Myles Pollard, CB/Nk Kody Jones, CB Will Johnson, LB Deuce Spurlock, LB Jimmy Rolder, DE/LB Micah Pollard, DE Derrick Moore, DT Mason Graham, DT Kenneth Grant, DT Cam Goode, T Andrew Gentry, T/G Connor Jones, G Alessandro Lorenzetti, C Olu Oluwatimi. Cologne, Germany via Rabun Gap (Nacoochee), GA – 6'6”, 215 [via Twitter] 247: 6'6/215 3.69* 3*, 88, NR overall #22 TE, #37 GA Rivals: 6'6/220 3.69* 3*, 5.7, NR overall #28 TE, #51 GA ESPN: 6'6/220 3.59* 3*, 78, #324 SE #18 TE-Y, #80 GA On3: 6'6/215 3.83* 4*, 90, NR overall #31 TE, #49 GA Composite: 3.82* 3*, 0.8815, #545 ovr #29 TE, #57 GA Other Suitors Purdue, FSU, Georgia? YMRMFSPA Zach Gentry Previously On MGoBlog Hallo aus der Zukunft by Ace Notes Twitter. Film: Senior Highlights: Hudl (only goes up to Jr year). Sr vs Providence Day. If there's one sure thing about Harbaugh, you really just have to take his word when it comes to tight ends. He had scores of them at Stanford. The first guy he recruited to Michigan was a dual-threat from Albuquerque. He pulled an unranked athlete out of Dudley, Massachusetts. He took a kid who was the third-best receiver on his team in Florida, the quarterback of Hamden Hall in Hamden, Connecticut, a camp offer from Ohio that Ohio State didn't want, an offensive tackle in Ohio, and a kid from Burke, VA, because he looked athletic at a Rivals camp. By 2020 the sites finally learned if there's a jump-baller in Massachusetts with a Michigan offer, that dude should be a 4-star. While Rivals was moving Lou Hansen into their top-100 on principle, Harbaugh had his people embedded with a German recently relocated to Rabun Gap-Nacoochee, Georgia. Marlin Klein started watching football at 11, but didn't play it until 2016. He quickly discovered he was better at it than the other kids from the suburbs of Cologne, Germany, and came to Rabun Gap-Nacoochee in time to put up over 300 yards as a sophomore. The pandemic caught up to him a month later, and he was back in Cologne waiting it out while his Rabun Gap-Nacoochee coach emailed tape. Via the Daily's (and sometimes our) Ethan Sears, Michigan offered without seeing more. Klein made it to Ann Arbor in early fall, and committed a few weeks later, at which time this was his class: Klein is M's third commit for 2022, joining four-star DT Alex VanSumeren and four-star ILB Tyler Martin. That's about the last time there was any scouting on Klein. Then again, Michigan never wavered either. [After THE JUMP: Sure, why not?]
Previously: Last year’s profiles. S Damani Dent, S/Nk Zeke Berry, S/HSP Keon Sabb, CB Myles Pollard, CB/Nk Kody Jones, CB Will Johnson, LB Deuce Spurlock, LB Jimmy Rolder, DE/LB Micah Pollard, DE Derrick Moore, DT Mason Graham, DT Kenneth Grant, DT Cam Goode, T Andrew Gentry, T/G Connor Jones. Montreal, QUE via Windsor, CT – 6'6”, 285 [via Instagram] 247: 6'6/285 3.89* 3*, 88 #46 OT, #1 CT Rivals: 6'6/275 3.64* 3*, 5.6 NR OT, #3 CT ESPN: 6'6/275 3.85* 3*, 78, #59 East #49 OT, #1 CT On3: 6'6/275 n/a not rated IOL Composite: 3.70* 3*, 0.8702, #679 ovr #56 OT, #2 CT Other Suitors PSU, MSU, UGA YMRMFSPA Ben Bredeson Previously On MGoBlog Hello Post by Me. Notes Twitter. Flickr. Film: Senior Highlights: Hudl. Junior year scrimmage. Imagine you were challenged to create the ultimate under-the-radar recruit. Rules are he has to be a recruit who gets the bare minimum coverage from the four sites, but also seem like a guy over 50-percent likely to eventually start for a contender. If we're to engineer this correctly we have to start with some factors that often get players overlooked: Has to grow up away from football, preferably in another country or a part of America (like Connecticut) where scouts don't want to waste their time. Competition level has to be low so his tape can't be taken seriously. Stays away from all camps. Private workouts only. Projects to a position he's not playing now. Make him an offensive lineman, since those are the hardest to rank out of high school. Can't be close to playing size. Have him be a good 30-40 pounds under college weight, and a late growth spurt so what's circulating from roster data is years outdated. Recruitment has to go quickly; no more than one school should have time to take more than a passing glance. Be on the board as little time as possible. Big offers should be kept quiet. Preferably no social media, but if so no edits except from where he commits and schools that often recruit well outside the top-1000 like Connecticut or Michigan State. No official visits, and bunch the unofficial ones into a single trip announced at the last minute so recruiting reporters don't get wind. Minimal relevant football played. Stay out of America as long as possible. Pandemic- or injury-canceled seasons. No drama after he commits—guy has to be so about the place he's going nobody looks at him again. Alessandro Lorenzetti is going to be hard to beat. He got a huge head start by starting his life Montreal, transferring to Connecticut in time to see his junior season canceled by the pandemic, then had his senior year asterisked by playing through a shoulder injury. He was discovered by Michigan only because he was intercepted for a workout on his way to Michigan State. It wasn't a perfect run; Penn State got involved, the SEC was poking around, and a workout at Ohio State was in the works at one point. He also slipped and put out some pretty good senior tape, though fortunately that didn't cost him since he was literally the first player in Michigan's class to get his LOI sent in. Jake Moody still owns the Michigan Any% record for managing to slip into his class as a scholarship player without anyone taking him for more than a walk-on until he was literally on the field, but Lorenzetti's record for least scouting on a position player might stand for a long time. [After THE JUMP: This isn't great news if you're writing a summary recruiting profile]